Magical History Tour

John Crowley’s novel completes his epic four-part cycle

Christopher R. Beha

Endless Things:

A part of Aegypt

by John Crowley

$24.00 List Price

Creation myths fascinate us because they point to the time when things began to become as they are, and so suggest that we might go back and choose a different, better path. "The universe comes to be at the moment when God wills it to be," John Crowley writes in Endless Things, the concluding volume of his four-part series, Ægypt. "It never existed before that moment, and after that moment it always did." Now that the series is finally complete, this is rather how Ægypt—twenty years in the making—itself feels: as if it had been there all along, and Crowley had merely come along to point it out to us.

And yet in some ways, it is hardly here at all: Endless Things sat unpublished for several years before Small Beer Press took it on, and all three previous volumes—The Solitudes (1987), Love & Sleep (1994), and

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